Contractor alive after being extricated from ditch in New City

4:14 PM,
Nov. 23, 2012

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A worker was pulled alive from a trench at a home off Germonds Road at 3:30 p.m. after being trapped under ground for more than two hours.

The extent of the victim's injuries was unclear. Rescuers put a neck brace on him as he was put on a stretcher. He was taken by an emergency medical helicopter that was waiting at Albertus Magnus High School to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla.

The man had been buried waist-deep in more than six feet of heavy, clay-like dirt and rocks and pinned against the foundation of the house after the walls caved in on him at 1:30 p.m., according to Don Arterburn, chief of ...